Bulletin Board: three Materials Request Forms with rewards and approval stamps

About this game

Developer: Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. · Publisher: NIS America, Inc. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Villager requests are paperwork. The Bulletin Board presents each job as a printed Materials Request Form, requester, deadline, item and count on dotted form lines, a flat 1000 yen reward, and a handwritten-style note that keeps the villager's voice in the document. The telling detail is the stamp row at the foot of every form: Receipt Stamp, Volunteer Stamp and Request Approval, with the red hanko seal already applied, accepting work in Kagatsu Village is framed as processing it, a small bureaucratic ritual that matches the game's paper-and-ink interface throughout. Frame at about 0:27 in the English Launch trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-document panel-grid quest-tracker

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Clock Button prompts

Screen inventory

• three 'Materials Request Form' paper cards side by side, colour-coded by header: Rin (blue) wants Wood 30 within 6 days; Rokkaku (green) wants Rainbow Trout 2 within 5 days; Tobari (purple) wants Cosmos 2 within 5 days, each offering a 1000 yen reward
• every form carries a personal Note ('Needed as soon as physically possible!', 'Got the reward set aside already.', 'Thanks in advance.')
• a bureaucracy row at each form's foot: Receipt Stamp, Volunteer Stamp and Request Approval boxes, the approval box already stamped with a red hanko seal
• a 'Bulletin Board' label at top right, the date readout 'AU/12 (FRI), PM 05:30' above it, and an '✕ Confirm' prompt at bottom left

Top 3 colors

#383f34 24%#8c8781 20%#9a948a 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. / NIS America, Inc., Village in the Shade screenshot: English Launch trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by NIS America, Inc..

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: manual frame extracted from the pipeline-fetched English Launch trailer and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); all three requesters, items, deadlines, rewards, notes and stamp rows confirmed legible; no trailer title or overlay text in the frame

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